VARIK RONTREMONT

Magitek engineer and world's okayest boss.

BIO

Race: Duskwight Elezen; Varik's mother was a Gridanian expatriate to TerncliffAge: 37Profession: Owner of Locus Engineering; beleaguered boss of the "adventurers" currently operating under the Free Company sobriquet ‘The SNACK Company’Varik was eighteen when the territory his family called home was annexed into the greater whole of the Garlean Empire. He jumped at the chance to join the Imperial Army with an end goal of providing his mother, grandmother and siblings a better life once citizenship was granted at the end of his twenty year tenure. His experience within the army was, like with many non-pureblood Garleans, largely unhappy.Assigned under a Centurio who regarded non-native conscripts as fodder rather than soldiers, Varik and his fellow architectus were worked hard and often cruelly. He earned the ire of his centurio early through a combination of showboating and genuine talent. In an attempt to inspire compliance and subservience, she put him to the proverbial coals - culminating in her instructing him to work on a live ceruleum engine, resulting in an electrocution injury that very nearly took his life.Instead of obedience, these experiences ingrained within Varik two things: a staunch belief that he was unkillable and a manic drive regarding all things engineering.When disease ravaged Terncliff and its surrounding areas, Varik’s regiment was stationed in an annexed territory thousands of malms away. At some point, news of his family’s death as a result of that epidemic reached him, which started a cascading effect resulting in him slipping his leash twelve years early and escaping into Eorzea, safely outside of the Empire’s control. Details of his life around this time are spotty, with good reason, but at some point he managed to obtain Ul’dahn citizenship with the help of another Duskwight who lived within the city-state.In the years since settling within Eorzea, he has established Locus Engineering, a combination armory and mechanics shop based out of The Goblet which takes commissions on retainer. Like many adventurers, he’s also thrown his hat into the adventuring and exploration wing, acting as the head of a group of ne’er-do-wells/"adventurers" (see: mercenaries) under the banner 'The SNACK Company'. This is, quite obviously, not the name of whatever cutthroat band that operates underneath this legal shell. Information on this organization is purposefully vague, but it’s known that they’re primarily funded by Monetarist coin.A talented sniper who approaches the profession with with untold zeal, some have said that his single-minded dedication is reflected in both his ability with a gun and the violence that he enacts with it. He takes to every fight as though his back is pressed against the wall and approaches every mission as if it might be his last.

OOC

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Discord: simplygastlyPlayer is 21+. I'm in the CST time zone and primarily play in the evenings & anytime during the weekend.Will Do: Pre-established connections, adventure RP, short term/long term character arcs, friendships, colleagues, rivals, enemies.Won't Do: ERP, unplanned character death/heavy injury without preplanning